Archive for October, 2006
Watching documentary
There are few points that a lecturer said before he showed us a documentary:
Always remember this: Do not take documentary as representation of truth. It is not. Documentary is used to point out an opinion. The facts are build around the opinion. Documentary is not the end of the idea. There are history and agenda behind documentary.
In short, [...]
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New China
I started reading about China for my assignment on China-USA relationship. A friend recommended this book. It turned out that the book was not about the relationship, but about China’s road to communism. It’s written interestingly by its journalist-author. It gives an overview of the history just within 113 pages with 12pt font and 1.5 spacing. However, I’m rather skeptical with its balance – it gives [...]
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Howard Barrell, my lecturer in Cardiff, told the our class which full of journalist wanna-be:
“You want to know the rule of thumb of a good journalist?”
“It’s to make significant interesting. The key is interesting, interesting, interesting.”
“When I was a young abnoxious journalist, I had important stories to tell. I thought that it was so important [...]
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The UK imagined
For some Asian students, the UK is not as what they first expected.
I’d always wanted to visit and understand the UK. The country has centuries of impressive history in science, arts and modern civilization. Science invention grew here. Industrial revolution started here. Enid Blyton’s caravan family ‘lived’ here. Democracy grew here. I expected modern country with open-minded people because the [...]
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